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...inside me. Other heckling eventually drowned out the offending comment. I sat there hoping that nothing more of that nature would be said. Instead, a barrage of homophobic remarks started spewing forth from those seated behind me, and to my total dismay, these comments met with applause and laughter from the audience...
What was so disappointing was that, when I looked around the auditorium, I saw so many familiar faces: classmates, acquaintances and even many close friends all laughing along with these jokes. The girl from my art history class burst into loud laughter. The guy who sat next to me on the shuttle to New York started clapping every time he heard the word "fag." I even saw a friend from high school scream, "Take...
...line poem, lampoon sex and relationships as often tangled and ridiculous-think lots of vines and anthropomorphic gourds. Overall, "Sex, Sexism, and Society" puts up a good fight, whether hitting you over the head or searing you with images of injustice, then stitching you up with laughter...
...Saturday, 4 p.m., Park Street, red line. A large gathering of Saturday shoppers can't help but turn their heads and listen to an enthusiastic performer crack MBTA jokes about the red line. The comical tune "Street Signs in Boston Suck" receives a resounding mixture of applause and laughter from fans. Tom Bianchi is a funny character. The 30-year-old has played in subways full time for the past 18 months and truly tells it like it is, singing, "the rats on the tracks always upstage me," "I just love to play, all day, hooray" and "please stay behind...
...Elsewhere in the museum, I find white people taking a collective dump all over various other facets of Mashantucket Pequot culture. I hear a number of snide remarks and much repressed laughter during my tour through the museum. While I might ordinarily find such behavior highly reprehensible, here nothing manages to rouse my ire. This is because, in some very important ways, the Mashantucket Pequot's claim of a distinct cultural identity seems somewhat tenuous. The Mashantucket Pequots lack a distinct native language. The representations of modern indigenous language and culture within the museum are largely facsimiles or bastardizations...